Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 30 Sep 2013 17:16:00 -0700 | From | Guenter Roeck <> | Subject | Re: coretemp.ko not auto-loaded on 3.11.x |
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On 09/30/2013 03:29 PM, Brian Gitonga Marete wrote: > On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 12:25 AM, Brian Gitonga Marete > <marete@toshnix.com> wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> Some time ago, an enhancement was made to the kernel that caused >> coretemp.ko (as well as other cpu-specific drivers) to be auto-loaded. >> >> This has broken for me in 3.11.x. It works fine on 3.10.x. >> >> Please see the attached kernel config and let me know if I left out >> something notwithstanding doing a `sillentoldconfig' from my 3.10.x >> config, which does not exhibit the problem. >> > > Some further information which upon some research, may be useful: > > Kernel is 3.11.2 (But misbehavior first seen with 3.11.0) > > $ cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/modalias > x86cpu:vendor:0000:family:0006:model:0025:feature:,0000,0001,0002,0003,0004,0005,0006,0007,0008,0009,000B,000C,000D,000E,000F,0010,0011,0013,0015,0016,0017,0018,0019,001A,001B,001C,001D,001F,002B,0034,003B,003D,0068,006B,006C,006D,006F,0070,0072,0074,0075,0076,0078,007C,0080,0082,0083,0084,0085,0087,0088,0089,008D,008E,008F,0091,0093,0094,0097,00C0,00E0,00E1,00E7,0100,0101,0102,0103,0104 > > $ modinfo coretemp > filename: /lib/modules/3.11.2/kernel/drivers/hwmon/coretemp.ko > license: GPL > description: Intel Core temperature monitor > author: Rudolf Marek <r.marek@assembler.cz> > srcversion: 31B63A96FD9FD13CDDBDF32 > alias: x86cpu:vendor:0000:family:*:model:*:feature:*00E7* > depends: > intree: Y > vermagic: 3.11.2 SMP mod_unload modversions > parm: tjmax:TjMax value in degrees Celsius (int) > > I have UDEV 175 from Ubuntu 12.04. > > The module alias seems to match that in cat > /sys/devices/system/cpu/modalias, so udev should be able to probe for > and load coretemp.ko, but that is not happening, which is strange to > me. > > I also note that microcode.ko, which is handled by the same mechanism > for auto-loading based on CPUID, is no longer auto-loaded in kernel > 3.11.x. > > I have added Thomas Renninger and Greg Kroah-Hartman to the thread CC. >
See
http://lists.lm-sensors.org/pipermail/lm-sensors/2013-August/039745.html
and
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-bugs/2013-08/msg01676.html
as well as
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit?id=bf7f800f2b3e93ccd1229d4717166f3a4d3af72f
In summary, you'll need a new udev rule.
Guenter
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